Girolamo gets first Stakes winner from first crop

She’s All Ready became the first stakes winner for freshman sire Girolamo in taking the six and one-half furlong Seeking the Ante Stakes at Saratoga on August 28th.  The filly is now 2 for 2, having broken her maiden impressively by 8 lengths on debut at Saratoga three weeks earlier, for which she earned TDN Rising Star status.

Sent off as the heavy 1-5 favorite in her stakes debut, She’s All Ready broke sharply and dueled with longshot Crowd Control through a quarter in 22 flat and a half-mile in 45 1/5.  She began to pull away around the turn and drew off in the stretch to win by three lengths in a final time of 1:16 3/5.

Bred in New York by Kings and Queens Farm, She’s All Ready is out of the winning El Prado mare Prominent, who is out of the stakes-winning mare Biblionic.

Girolamo, a son of A.P Indy and a full brother to the dams of G1 winners Super Saver, Bluegrass Cat, and Imagining, won the G1 Vosburgh and the G2 Jerome Handicap.  He has had seven first-crop winners so far, including stakes-placed Belmont maiden winner Lucky Lurie and Saratoga debut winners Backwood Bay and Pagan.  The latest win by She’s All Ready places Girolamo at #2 on the North American first-crop sire list by earnings.